Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science by Watson, James D. (9780192802736)

Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

by Watson, James D.

Hardcover - English

Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0192802739

EAN

9780192802736

Publisher

PRACTITIONER LAW

Publication Date

22 Oct 2007

Pages

362

Weight (kg)

0.68

Dimensions (cm)

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1

About Author

James D. Watson was Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1993 and is now its President. He spent his undergraduate years at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Indiana University. Between 1950 and 1953, he did postdoctoral research in Copenhagen and Cambridge, England. While at Cambridge, he began the collaboration that resulted in the elucidation of the double-helical structure of DNA in 1953. Later in1953, he went to the California Institute of Technology. He moved to Harvard in 1955, where he taught and did research on RNA synthesis and protein sy